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Paper 2021/751

Grain-128AEADv2: Strengthening the Initialization Against Key Reconstruction

Martin Hell and Thomas Johansson and Alexander Maximov and Willi Meier and Hirotaka Yoshida

Abstract

Properties of the Grain-128AEAD key re-introduction, as part of the cipher initialization, are analyzed and discussed. We consider and analyze several possible alternatives for key re-introduction and identify weaknesses, or potential weaknesses, in them. Our results show that it seems favorable to separate the state initialization, the key re-introduction, and the $A/R$ register initialization into three separate phases. Based on this, we propose a new cipher initialization and update the cipher version to Grain-128AEADv2. It can be noted that previously reported and published analysis of the cipher remains valid also for this new version.

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Secret-key cryptography
Publication info
Preprint. MINOR revision.
Keywords
Grain-128AEADv2stream ciphersNISTdifferentials
Contact author(s)
martin hell @ eit lth se
History
2021-06-07: received
Short URL
https://ia.cr/2021/751
License
Creative Commons Attribution
CC BY
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